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Melanie Hartzog, a former New York City deputy mayor, discussed the arc of her career and moving back to the nonprofit world.

Strike a balance between this futuristic, you know, sci-fi storytelling yet at the same time pay homage to and respect the history of these incredible individuals, these american heroes, especially at a time when so many classrooms, so many school districts, states, are now disputing the value of teaching black history? >> yeah. no, it's a wonderful challenge that me and greg, we co-write the story, so we constantly have this conscious effort where we're trying to make it not feel like we're teaching history. that's not the goal. we set out to make an all-ages book, an all-ages story that of c...

They are not blood descendants, but we say they've inherited the legacy and are being trained by a fictional deskcendant we made up, of the tuskegee airmen. he's giving them wonderful information and training them in the ways of being fighters. and that is where they look up to, and of course the tuskegee airmen and everything they do. the look, everything from the gear they wear, to uniforms to practicing in the p-51 mustangs, the same that the airmen flew. >> greg, how did you all do your research, or how did you incorporate the research or perhaps even interviews with, you know, tuskegee ai...

Barriers during world war ii. now a new comic book series aiming to inspire the next generation by paying homage to their legacy is called "tuskegee airs" and follows a young group of black pilots fighting in a futuristic action sci-fi adventure. joining me now greg berman and marcus williams. good to see you. >> very good to see you. thanks for having us on. >> fantastic. perhaps, greg, you first. what was the inspiration behind creating this? >> honestly, just the tuskegee airmen, we were so enamored with their legacy that he wanted to do something kind of new and fresh but that could also b...

Balance that we struck generally, as soon as we were contacting, we started pushing towards the future. i love technology. i love anime, japanese animation, comics. greg, a lot of the same. so that balance comes in to where if we wanted to make it feel entertaining but also educational, but it's very subtle. we introduce concepts, locations around the world as their mission takes them around the world, but everything from putting, you know, technology where, you know, their jets transform into giant robots. you probably can't see that very well. >> yeah. >> their technology is constantly known...